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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / March 2004Disk Boot Failure
I'm running win 95, when I start my computer it stops at the system configurations screen and at the bottom of the screen it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" My back up disks don't do anything when I put them in the computer. My win 95 cd says "my computer is running a newer version of 95". I downloaded a floppy boot disk from www.bootdisk.com, put it in the bad computer and hit enter, I got the same error message. I put the boot disk in my new computer and it said that it was an invalid program.? Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance for your help. Kelly Start the computer and watch the screen closely for something like "Press delete for setup". Press the appropriate key, find "Boot Sequence" and make sure it is set to "A: then C:". Be sure to save any changes when exiting. Also, the downloads at the www.bootdisk.com site are programs that you download and double-click on a working computer. They will not work if you simply copy them to a floppy. Ben > I'm running win 95, when I start my computer it stops at > the system configurations screen and at the bottom of the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Kelly Thanks, but that did not help anything, In the boot sequence setup, I have "A, C, SCSI". Can't do just A,C, what is the SCSI for? I will try to download again from Bootdisk.com, I did double click the floppy, but no response from the other computer. Should I have the floppy in before turning on the computer, or wait until the error message comes up? >-----Original Message----- >Start the computer and watch the screen closely for something like [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> Kelly >. Whether or not SCSI is listed third in the sequence will make no difference. The boot floppy must be inserted in the drive before the machine is switched on. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > Thanks, but that did not help anything, In the boot > sequence setup, I have "A, C, SCSI". Can't do just A,C, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > floppy in before turning on the computer, or wait until > the error message comes up? The idea is to download the appropriate program from the http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm site to the hard drive of a working computer, then double-click it. You will be prompted for a floppy. "A, C, SCSI" is fine. Insert the floppy before starting the computer and when you get an "A:\>" prompt, type "fdisk /status" and repost with the results. Also try "scandisk c:". Ben > Thanks, but that did not help anything, In the boot > sequence setup, I have "A, C, SCSI". Can't do just A,C, [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > >> Kelly > >. That did not work either. I must be doing something severely wrong. Just put me in the same group as computers for idiot's. Thanks for your time and effort. Kelly >-----Original Message----- >The idea is to download the appropriate program from the [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] >> > >. Please repost with more information, including whether the file downloaded, whether you were able to find the file and what it did when you double-clicked it. Ben > That did not work either. I must be doing something > severely wrong. Just put me in the same group as [quoted text clipped - 80 lines] > >> > > >. I downloaded a file called boot95a (and b)from the bootdisk site to my working computer, download was complete, I double clicked, when asked for floppy, I put one in the A drive, the computer showed it copied the files, I then opened the files on the disk on the good computer, I saw the list of files on the floppy. I then closed the floppy, and took it out of the good computer and put it in the bad computer and turned on the power, it still stops at the system configuration screen and says "boot disk failure, insert system disk and press enter." Maybe I'm not downloading the right file? Kelly >-----Original Message----- >Please repost with more information, including whether the [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] >> > >. Go into the BIOS setup on the problem computer and make sure that "A:" is configured as a 1.44 megabyte 3.5 inch drive. Also, make sure the boot sequence is still set to "A, C, SCSI". Be sure to save any changes when exiting. Ben > I downloaded a file called boot95a (and b)from the > bootdisk site to my working computer, download was [quoted text clipped - 124 lines] > >> > > >. I did that, However I noticed that the Primary Master and Primary Slave types had changed, so I did the auto detect and restarted teh computer, I now get the message "Disk I/O error, replace the disk and then press any key". Also in the BIOS screen when I was checking the boot sequence, I noticed there is a "Boot up floppy seek" which is set on enabled. and a "virus warning? set to disabled. Should either of those be changed? Kelly >-----Original Message----- >Go into the BIOS setup on the problem computer and make [quoted text clipped - 134 lines] >> > >. BIOS virus warning should be enabled unless you are doing low level disk work like partitioning or a Windows installation. So leave it disabled until you get things sorted out, then enable it. Floppy seek doesn't matter. Having it on slows the boot process slightly and raises the possibility of a faulty floppy drive halting the boot, but it also ensures the drive is detected correctly. Any change in BIOS settings for disk type creates a possibility of the system not being able to read the drives. Auto Detect _should_ always return the same information, but if it doesn't then the drives may become inaccessible until settings are returned to what they were.  SignatureJeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > I did that, However I noticed that the Primary Master and > Primary Slave types had changed, so I did the auto detect [quoted text clipped - 175 lines] > >> > > >. As mentioned by another poster, the "floppy seek" and "virus warning" settings are probably not causing the problem. If the boot floppy works in other computers and the boot sequence of the problem computer is "A, C, SCSI", then the computer is not reading the boot floppy. Possible causes are a bad floppy drive and loose or reversed floppy drive cables. Ben > I did that, However I noticed that the Primary Master and > Primary Slave types had changed, so I did the auto detect [quoted text clipped - 176 lines] > >> > > >. Thanks to everyone with all the suggestions. I'm pretty sure now I have a bad floppy drive. Thanks again for your time and patience. Kelly >-----Original Message----- >As mentioned by another poster, the "floppy seek" and "virus [quoted text clipped - 188 lines] >> > >. Kelly, Maybe that I missed something, but the floopy disk that you copied the stuff you downloaded from Bootdisk to does have the system files on it, doesn't it? Daniel > Thanks to everyone with all the suggestions. I'm pretty > sure now I have a bad floppy drive. [quoted text clipped - 408 lines] >> >>. do you see the floppy drive light come on and try to read the disk? if the drive itself is not working , it will continue to try and boot from "c:" SCSI =small computer systems interface (just a different type of harddrive) > I downloaded a file called boot95a (and b)from the > bootdisk site to my working computer, download was [quoted text clipped - 123 lines] > >> > > >. When I turn the computer on, the CD ROM light comes on first, then the floppy drive light comes on then goes off real quick, I can hear the floppy make some kind of noise, but that's when the computer stops and gives me the disk boot failure. Maybe my floppy drive is no good. Kelly >-----Original Message----- >do you see the floppy drive light come on and try to read the disk? if the [quoted text clipped - 133 lines] > >. To see if the floppy is part of the problem, set it to NONE in BIOS device settings and try to boot. SignatureJeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > When I turn the computer on, the CD ROM light comes on > first, then the floppy drive light comes on then goes off [quoted text clipped - 164 lines] > > > >. As to SCSI, it stands for Small Computer Systems Interface, and it is a high-speed parallel interface standard for many peripherals, such as hard drives, scanners, laser printers, modems, etc; somewhat like a cross among IDE, Centronics (IEE1284) and USB. Hewlett-Packard used it a lot. It is still used in servers and high-performance computers, because it is faster than IDE and handles many peripherals as a Daisy Chain and hard drive geometry is user-transparent, this means no cylinders, tracks or sectors to detect in order to use more than two drives in RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configuration, to insure data integrity in case of a bad sector being encountered. > Thanks, but that did not help anything, In the boot > sequence setup, I have "A, C, SCSI". Can't do just A,C, [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > >> Kelly > >. |
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